Secondly, you have to know the right tricks to convince your little one (who's sometimes being a little monster) to stop having a fit and eat the apples instead of the French fries.

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But for a little girl facing a big world, the names were simple: Monster.

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But without some sort of pop madness roiling around in the basement, a monster movie has very little reason to exist.

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But even the biggest Pokemaniac will be a little surprised to see how big this pocket monster has grown.

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While the battle lines are being drawn, the scuttling little monster with the Peter Lorre wheedle leads Frodo and Sam toward a trap in order to steal the Ring before Frodo can finally return the damned thing to Mount Doom.

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All those years, while Maria was bantering with Cookie Monster, she was simultaneously inspiring little girls with dreams of becoming a performer.

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That's because the company's biggest rival, Monster.com, has dropped out of the game, giving CareerBuilder a little bit of breathing room, he says.

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The closest they have managed is the Titan and Titan 2 handsets, which traded on little more than going for a very big screen (4.7 inches) and a monster count of pixels (with a 16 megapixel camera on the Titan 2).

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